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Re:Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:03PM (#36099736)
I've got protonmail connected to a personal domain (in case I ever want to switch providers and keep my address), works fairly well.
Despite almost everything being in one big repo, it has silos. Not everyone has read access to everything. Some code, like the important bits of Search, is only available on a need-to-know basis.
Re:To-do waves on Friday July 15, 2022 @01:04PM (#32110318)
As the old saying goes, "’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Needing to Pee and Taxes."
That's an old YAML 1.1 behavior. It was removed in 1.2 (in 2009), though some implementations (looking at you, pyyaml) are still on 1.1.
Re:An update to storage policies across your Google Account on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:17PM (#25295985)
If you're worried about your data evaporating, consider using Google Inactive Account Manager to set up a way to automatically gift your data to a family member. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en
Re:YubiKey 4C on Monday February 13, 2017 @08:36PM (#13640507)
We use the nanos heavily at my workplace. I've seen people make a chain out of paperclips when their nearest USB port is too far away (and they can't be bothered to grab an extension cable).
Re:Flat Pack Chainless Bicycle from IKEA on Sunday January 15, 2017 @03:39PM (#13406267)
That's like asking "Why are people still manufacturing bikes, you'd think everyone who wants a bike would have one by this point". Bikes generally have shorter lifespans than people, and we're also making new people-who-want-bikes all the time.
Re:Illegal Math on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:32AM (#11302591)
The government also can't stop you from robbing your neighbor, but that's not how laws work. Laws are about punishing you after the fact. If they catch you, of course.
Re:One-electron universe on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:17AM (#9009665)
It would be terrible to design it that way, but I think it's fine as a compiler optimization. Most of that datastructure is constant anyway, think of the memory savings!
Just imagine the sexually transmitted advertisements. Get a strange rash for a few days that has an ad for condoms printed on it.
Re:Use Google Spreadsheets as a CMS on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:13PM (#7966974)
Or maybe they just use push notifications?

https://developers.google.com/drive/web/push

Re:She's Her Own Twin on Monday June 09, 2014 @08:09PM (#7871222)
Depends. The article didn't reveal which parts of her had which DNA, we just know that her eggs had different DNA than whatever they were sampling from. If she left blood behind and they did a blood test, it would come out as a match. If she left some other random bit of cellular structure behind, it might not match against her blood.
Re:Kevo – Bluetooth Electronic Deadbolt on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:01PM (#7649611)
Yep, the extra non-physical keys cost money.

"Additional eKeys are available as an in-app purchase for a one-time charge of $1.99. eKeys never expire and can be passed from one person to the next by a lock Owner or Admin."

Have you considered buying solar-powered drones from Titan Aerospace before Facebook snatches them up? Probably a bit pricey, but they are marketed as atmospheric satellites.
Re:Show HN: Google Music for Mac on Saturday February 22, 2014 @06:34PM (#7284135)
It's just an interface to Google Play Music, which already makes your music available on your Android.
Tried signing in with a gmail account and it wanted me to create a password. The gmail bridge seems to be functioning normally at persona.org, so what's the deal?
Re:Python for Android on Thursday August 08, 2013 @12:27PM (#6179943)
Make Dalvik/JVM a compile target for Go? There is at least one project working on this.
Re:Python for Android on Thursday August 08, 2013 @12:25PM (#6179924)
> Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM.

This sounds false. The PyPy Features page does mention that PyPy will run on the JVM, but that it is incomplete there, and in particular they don't have their JIT ported to it yet. Do you have any source on that?

Depends, how good are you at creative writing? I can think of a lot of messages you might send to someone that you'd want to be private that aren't nefarious plots. Weird fan fiction. Deviant porn. Messages exchanged with a secret mistress. Depending on the situation, you might even want to give them a fake copy of your nefarious plot. Include more than one extra set of messages if you like and give them whatever keys you like in whatever order is appropriate.
Near the bottom they mention using more than one wheat stream to achieve something like deniable encryption. If they ask you for the key, give them the one that produces innocent-looking messages.
Re:Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:30PM (#5974452)
Jury nullification is possible, but it's unusual for any jury members who have heard of it to make the cut.
Re:Making the web fun again on Friday June 28, 2013 @11:48AM (#5958589)
CGI-based images or pages. I don't believe GeoCities let users upload their own CGI scripts, but I believe they had a set of pre-defined CGI tools you could call. You could also set up things like guestbooks using an external service. It wasn't unusual to see "Guestbook provided by $FOO" at the bottom of guestbook pages. Kind of like Disqus, but before JavaScript.
Re:Mac Pro on Monday June 10, 2013 @06:34PM (#5857947)
They're going with external expansion options. There are enclosures you can buy for PCIe cards to plug them in to the Thunderbolt ports if you need to.
Let's see him pop it into an electric car and take a cross-continent drive without stopping for a recharge.
Re:Prove: Phone verification for developers on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @04:12PM (#5782427)
You might want to look into getting a prepaid phone of some kind, even if it's not a smart phone. Having a portable emergency communication device seems like a good idea even if you're opposed (for whatever reason) to cellphone use in general, and a prepaid phone won't give you monthly bills or contracts to worry about.

If that's no good, then how about Google Voice? In addition to its other useful phone-related features, it allows sending and receiving of text messages.

The materials for this still need to be grown. They just have very long shelf lives.
Re:Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use? on Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:46AM (#5729091)
SublimeText
The Boy Scouts even have separate Rifle Shooting and Shotgun Shooting merit badges.
Re:Stray Dogs Master Complex Moscow Subway System (2010) on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:52PM (#5629618)
It's possible that some of the dogs were either previously owned by someone who used that route or were following around a friendly stranger. There's a cat in my neighborhood who will follow me around since I give her food occasionally, and I imagine stray dogs might behave similarly.

Once they've used the subway a few times, they probably learn to distinguish the sounds and smells of the stops they're interested in. Even if they can't read or understand spoken announcements, most dogs seem to figure out what vehicles are for without much trouble.

Once one or more dogs have learned this trick, transfer of information kicks in. At the end of the day, the other dogs at the shelter can probably tell who ate well that day, and they're likely to want to go with that dog to see where the food is at. The subway dog may even encourage his friends to come along; most of us have probably seen and understood a dog's "hey come with me and see this thing" signals, and dogs are pack animals.

Re:#ifihadglass I would jailbreak it and modify the software on Saturday April 27, 2013 @06:59PM (#5619350)
Given the way that babies flail around uselessly and can't produce meaningful output for years, I was under the impression that vim was the default editor ;)

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